title: Sporadic occurrence of jarcho-levin syndrome in an ivorian newborn.
abstract: We report on an isolated chest-wall asymmetry with imaging findings of multiple vertebral and related rib defects in an Ivorian male newborn. He was born of a healthy and young couple without parental lineage, neither family malformative history nor teratogen exposure. This clinical presentation advocates Jarcho-Levin syndrome, a rare sporadic or familial disorder inherited as autosomal dominant or recessive mode and manifested by extensive vertebral segmentation defects with distinctive rib structural and morphological anomalies. According to our belief, this disorder has not been previously traced in the sub-Saharan African area.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Pédiatrique, CHU de Yopougon, 21 BP 632 Abidjan 21, Cote D'Ivoire ; Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, BP V 34 Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
authors.forename: Thierry Hervé
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Odéhouri-Koudou
authors.forename: Jean-Baptiste
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Yaokreh
authors.forename: Samba
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tembély
authors.forename: Rufin Kobinan
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Dick